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The artist known as Banksy who last year installed his own pieces of art in UK museums has done it again in NY - the art I think is much better this time! I especially like the bug and the Tesco Value can.

Alessandro Fulciniti has released a new version of his Nifty corners script. The script is now far more usable, works in more browsers and the applications are endless. I predict this will be a main staple of many sites for this year - mine included!

Brad Choate has put together SpamLookup for MT and in doing so has pulled one out of the bag here by producing something which may actually superscede MTBlacklist. This is a seriously well thought out plug-in and knowing Brads work has got to be very well engineered.

Several people have been sacked because they have blogged about their work place. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a guide on how to avoid getting the boot for having your say.
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php

Anatoly Papirovsky spends some time sorting out an elegant solution to image replacement that is cross platform and it works in "images off, CSS on" scenarios.
http://fecklessmind.com/main/5/definitive-solution-to-image-replacement

Webaim, the accessibility people, have a review, by Jennifer Dance, of Chris Perderick's 'I can't remember what life was like before' Web Developer extension for Firefox. This is easily my all time extension for any programme but can be a bit daunting for some. Jennifer’s article describes all the menu items that are useful for helping to ensure your site is accessible.
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/evaluating/devtoolbar/devtool

Google Maps have come to the UK! Fantastic!
http://maps.google.co.uk/

Don't waste your vote at the general election - use it to ensure that one of the smaller parties get their deposit back - they need a minimum amount of votes to reclaim the deposit for standing for election.

If you really don't want to vote or have no idea who to vote for then do consider one of the exciting alternatives - the Monster Raving Loony Party. Their manifesto was the only one that I have read where I found myself smiling at the end.

Don't waste your vote by not using it.

http://www.omrlp.com/

Sebastian Delmont has built TypeMover, a MovableType plug in that creates full backups of all your MT content including posts, pings, comments, ip bans, configs etc.
http://www.zonageek.com/software/mt/typemover/